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Ephraim Walker, who worked closely with Ryan Coogler in developing the powerful film Fruitvale Station, has been named president of production of independent production and distribution company D Street Media Group overseeing the company's film projects and production unit. The West Coast office will be set in Oakland…

Melonie Diaz has joined the cast of The Belko Experiment, the MGM action horror pic written and produced by Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn. Production kicks off next month in Bogota with director Greg McLean. Diaz will play Dany Wilkins, the new girl at Belko Corporation. It’s her first day working in the…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. The combination of Sundance and the SAG Awards pushed the column until today.
BART: While you're at Sundance looking for the next…

That makes back-to-back Stanley Kramer Awards for The Weinstein Company, who also released last year’s recipient Bully. Here’s today’s release:
LOS ANGELES (December 13, 2013) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA), announced today that the critically acclaimed feature FRUITVALE STATION will be honored with the 2014…

Writer/Director Ryan Coogler‘s Sundance Film Festival sensation Fruitvale Station is now, just ten months later, hitting the awards season with strong impact. He was nominated Tuesday for Best First Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, but as he told an audience of AMPAS and Guild members at Deadline’s THE CO…

The Independent Filmmaker Project set its top five nominees for the 4th annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at one of the top 50 U.S. or Canadian film festivals from December 2012 through October 2013.
First round voting began October 24th and…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline.Deadline’s 3rd annual The Contenders event kicked off this morning at the shimmering new Wallis Annenberg Center For the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, simultaneously launching the 2013 awards season precisely four months before the 86th Academy Awards. The spotlight fell on…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is setting Ryan Coogler to direct Creed, and the studio is in early talks with Coogler’s Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan to play the grandson of Apollo Creed in a continuation of the Rocky saga that Coogler is going to write with Aaron Covington. Sylvester Stallone will reprise Rocky Balboa as…

New York, NY – July 15, 2013 – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today the special "FRUITVALE STATION: The Story of Oscar Grant," a behind the scenes look at the making of the film, will premiere exclusively on BET Networks on Monday, July 15, 2013 from 7:30 – 8:00 P.M. ET/PT. The special will also re-air on…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor.The Weinstein Company has managed to hit the zeitgeist on plenty of occasions, but this is one has eerie timing. The same weekend that the Trayvon Martin verdict was read, the company also happened to release its Sundance Film Festival ’13 winner Fruitvale Station in 7 theaters…